Vehicle windshield liquid concentrate package

ABSTRACT

A vehicle windshield liquid concentrate package is disclosed comprising double containers of flexible sheet material separately containing, respectively, an anti-freeze concentrate in liquid form and an aqueous windshield washer concentrate in liquid form, and means joining said containers together during storage and shipment which can be torn apart at the time of use to separate the two containers to facilitate opening them so that the point of use the two concentrates may be freshly admixed and added to the vehicle windshield cleaner container, said containers two isosceles triangular sided tetrahedrons joined along one pair of corresponding unequal length sides.

United 11 1 Barton 1 1March 13, 1973 l VEHICLE WINDSHIELD LIQUID CONCENTRATE PACKAGE M [76]' Inventor: Frederic 1). Barton, 47736 Ahumenu Loop," Karieohe, Hawaii 221 Filed: ,mw, 1971 211 Appl. Nol: 151,355

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[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,008,835 11/1961 M adding. ..206/47AX 3,469,768 9/1969 Repko "229/56 3,528,925 9/1970 Ch'apuis .252/9'0X FOREIGN PATENTS OR APPLICATIONS 525,042 4/1955 ltaly ..206/56 AB PrimaryExaminer-Leonard Summer Attorney-William 1.. Fisher 1 ABSTRACT A vehicle windshield liquid concentrate package disclose-d comprising double containers of flexible sheet material separately containing, respectively, an

anti-freeze concentrate in liquid form and an aqueous windshield washer concentrate in liquid form, and

means joining said containers together during storage and shipment which can be torn apart at the time of use to separate the two containers to facilitate opening them so that the point of use the two concentrates may be'freshly admixed and added to the vehicle windshield cleaner container, said containers two,

isosceles triangular sided tetrahedrons joined along one pair of corresponding unequal length sides.

1 Claim, 3 Drawing Figures PACKAGE My invention relates to the packaging of vehicle windshield liquid concentrates used in cleaning vehicle Windshields.

The principal object of my invention is the.provision of a vehicle windshield liquid concentrate package which can separately. contain predetermined quantities of two vehicle windshield liquid concentrates in liquid form that cannot be prolongedly admixed without deleterious effect upon each other and which package maintains the twoconcentrates physically together during storage and s hipment without admixture so that 'at the point of use they may be freshly admixed and added to the vehicle windshield cleaner container. i V

-T he foregoing object of my invention and the advantages thereof will become apparent during the course of the following description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 are, respectively, front elevational, top plan and end elevational views of a 'vehicle windshield liquid concentrate embodying my invention.

Referring to the drawings in greater detail, designates said vehicle windshield liquid concentrate package which comprises double liquid-tight sealed containers 12 and 14 separately containing, respectively, conventional anti-freeze concentrate '13 in liquid form, such as ethylene glycol, and conventional windshield washer concentrate 15 in liquid form, such as an aqueous solution of water soluble detergents and wetting agents. A particularly satisfactory windshield washer solution consisting of an aqueous solution of de tergents and wetting agents is a product presently marketed under the trademark Bars Bugs". Said vehicle windshield liquid concentrate package alsocomprises means 16 joiningsaid containers l2 and 14 together during storage and shipment, which means 16 is constructed to be torn apart at the time of use, as by a perforated junction line 17, to enable the two containers to be individually opened. Said containers 12 and 14 are formed of flexible metal coated sheet material, such as aluminum coated cardboard, for containing their respectiveliquid contentsand shaped into isosceles triangular sided tetrahedrons-joined along one pair of cor-- responding unequal length sides.

The package 10 rests on a flat surface without rolling, such as the floor of a vehicles glove compart- .ment, upon either the top or bottom surfaces of ,said

package 10 when said package 10 is disposed so that themeans 16 is disposed parallel to and in contact with said flat surface.

At the point of use in the winter the package 10 is torn apart at the perforated junction line 17. The containers 12 and 14 are each opened and the contents thereof added to the vehicle windshield cleaner container carried on the vehicle beneath the hood thereof. Since such contents are concentrates, water is added to form a vehicle windshield cleaner solution of suitable dilution.

It will thus be seen that there has been provided by my invention, a vehicle windshield liquid concentrate package in which the object hereinabove set forth together with many thoroughly practical advantages has been successfully achieved. While a preferred embodiment of my nvention has been shown and described it is to be understood that variations and 7 changes may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of my invention as defined by-the appended claims. Whatlclaim is: i l.' A vehicle windshield liquid concentrate package comprising double containers of flexible sheet material separately containing, respectively, an anti-freeze concentrate in liquid form and an aqueous windshield washer concentrate in liquid form, and means joining said containers together during storage and shipment which can be torn apart at the time of use to separate thetwo containers to facilitate opening them so that at the point of use the two concentrates may be freshly admixed and added to the vehiclle windshield cleaner container, said containers being two isosceles triangular sided tetrahedrons joined along one pair of corresponding unequal length sides, 7 

